SB 10.7.31
Devanāgarī
अहो बतात्यद्भुतमेष रक्षसा बालो निवृत्तिं गमितोऽभ्यगात् पुन: । हिंस्र: स्वपापेन विहिंसित: खल: साधु: समत्वेन भयाद् विमुच्यते ॥ ३१ ॥
Text
aho batāty-adbhutam eṣa rakṣasā bālo nivṛttiṁ gamito ’bhyagāt punaḥ hiṁsraḥ sva-pāpena vihiṁsitaḥ khalaḥ sādhuḥ samatvena bhayād vimucyate
Synonyms
aho—alas;bata—indeed;ati—very much;adbhutam—this incident is wonderfully astonishing;eṣaḥ—this (child);rakṣasā—by the man-eating demon;bālaḥ—the innocent child Kṛṣṇa;nivṛttim—taken away just to be killed and eaten;gamitaḥ—went away;abhyagātpunaḥ—but He has come back again unhurt;hiṁsraḥ—one who is envious;sva-pāpena—because of his own sinful activities;vihiṁsitaḥ—now (that demon) has been killed;khalaḥ—because he was envious and polluted;sādhuḥ—any person who is innocent and free from sinful life;samatvena—being equal to everyone;bhayāt—from all kinds of fear;vimucyate—becomes relieved.
Translation
It is most astonishing that although this innocent child was taken away by the Rākṣasa to be eaten, He has returned without having been killed or even injured. Because this demon was envious, cruel and sinful, he has been killed for his own sinful activities. This is the law of nature. An innocent devotee is always protected by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and a sinful person is always vanquished for his sinful life.
Purport
In the material world, because of intense lust and desire for enjoyment, one becomes implicated in sinful life more and more ( kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ ). Therefore the quality of fear is one of the aspects of material life ( āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca ). But if one becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious, the process of devotional service, śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam, diminishes one’s polluted life of material existence, and one is purified and protected by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ . In devotional life, one has faith in this process. Such faith is one of the six kinds of surrender. Rakṣiṣyatīti viśvāsaḥ ( Hari-bhakti-vilāsa 11.676). One of the processes of surrender is that one should simply depend on Kṛṣṇa, convinced that He will give one all protection. That Kṛṣṇa will protect His devotee is a fact, and Nanda Mahārāja and the other inhabitants of Vṛndāvana accepted this very simply, although they did not know that the Supreme Lord Himself was present before them. There have been many instances in which a devotee like Prahlāda Mahārāja or Dhruva Mahārāja has been put in difficulty even by his father but has been saved under all circumstances. Therefore our only business is to become Kṛṣṇa conscious and depend fully on Kṛṣṇa for all protection.